Improvement in deodorizing coffins



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1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE; y

' Anuman n. IiYMAraor vvILLIAMsnUnc,MnssneuUsu'rrs.`

iMPaovEMjENTiNDEoooaiziNG coFFiNs. i

Specification forming part of Letters Ifatent No, 4l 7,3! 3. dated April 18, 1865,

To all w/tom zt `Tranny concern:

Beit known that I, ALFRED E. LYMAN, of

Williamsburg, countylot" Hampshire, and- State of' Massachusetts, have invented anew and usei'ul improvement in machines or apparatus for deodorizing the foul air ot' oienf sive gases from cofiins, caskets, or burin-leases containing dead bodies, also to prevent the bursting ot' said cofns, easkets, or burial cases when toohighl y charged with said gases; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

rlhe nature of my invention consists in a new apparatus consisting of a crooked or angular tube, rcundor square, ot'a zigzag shape, which I call a receptacle for retaining the 4material for deodorizing the offensive gases, the said receptacle and apparatus, its

` description, construction, 'and operation'of the saine, reference being had' to the annexed draWings, making apart of this specification, 'in Which-,

Figure 1 represents a crooked or angular tube orreceptacle; Fig. 2, airchambcr, with tube under side; -Fig. 3, end of angular tube or receptacle; Fig. 5, under `sideof the coffinlid 5 Fig 6, outside-or top of`co`iin-lid; Fig. 7, covering over tube and spring-stop or valve;` Fig.,4 clasps or fastenings toholdgtbelreceptacle on the under sideof the eoilin-*lid or top; Fig. 8, tube tothe air chamber and springstop vor valve; Fig. 9, outside of valve o r stop' Xbox. i Y

' The Fig.; i, as isrepresented Vbythe, crookedor angular tube or receptacle, I -niakevoi .lead, or of'aliyv suitable metallicima'teriah .and ll the 'same with Java, West Iudia, o' r. other f good quality of coit'ee and charcoal combined,

or separately, (in sections,) as is most convenient. The coii'ee or charcoal must be in pieces of sufficient size as to allow the lpassage of the gases-at all times in a sufficient quantity to prevent the bursting of the coffin, casket's, or burial-cases where the pressure is so great Vas to need an outlet or ventilation. The

crooked 'or angular form I use in order to increase the distance for the passage of the foul .gases to pass through, thereby making it more sure to deodorize the said foul gases,

' so as not to detect any oii'e'nsive smell during the process of ventilation, and also accomplishing,v a double purpose of increasing the distance in said receptacle, still not requiring any additional space in the use of the same in the interior ot the coin, casket, or burial- Vcase, andcan be used in' either vwood or mel` tallic cotiins.

tacle until itis lostin theatmosphere outside -of the said eoiiin, casket, or burial-case.

lating itself by means of a spring beingplaced the top of the saine, and also forcing downthe `ont of the air-chamber, and conuectingfthe and 1.

v 4The covering isseen iii Fig. 7. I make use of a metallic ornament of an oval form, coverable `a pearaee, correspondiu g suitably with the re' t of the outside trimmings ofthe coffin,

ed and applied, as l'have above described,

with the above-named materials: for deodoriz# vstructible coating of` white lead, boiled linf seed-oil, and varnish, mixed with suitable sand, this composition being capableoffedurability. i y

I d o 'not require 'any additional space in burial-case, thereby 'making' it convenient to In Fig. 2, as represented, I connect an air-` valve, the said air chamber bcing'formed septhereto in such a way as to prevent the `escape f tacle with perforated holes for the purpose cf as to come in connection,completely. (or fully,) with the deodorizin g material, forcing its pas-` As seen in Figs. 8 and 9, I make use of a f spring stop or valve, formed of indiarubbel" and wire, so as to be self-aoting, alwaysregu-` s within chamber or boxand operatingupou stop or valve closely upon the tube comingsame with ,the receptacle, as seen in FgsS ,ing thetchamberin which thespring andstop or valve-is placed, thereby giving it a` desircasket: or burialcase, and when so construct ing the machine onapparatusI-Vcover comf-V pletely over the ontersurtace with auindo s'isting the acids and gases arising from the decomposition' of. dead bodies, thereby making an articleof great utility and usefulneis'iSimili` i either'the' wood or metalic casket, coiiin, or

'applyffthedeodorizinginaclline to any or all o' the known forms and stylos of Acofillss,cns :in gular form, {Qr the purposes herein de kets, or burial-cases now in use, ns the price scribed, and substantially setforth. Wlll come within the means of al1-classes of thecomm unity needing vso desirable an article. j ALFRED E' LYMAN' What I cla-im as my invention, and desire 4WVitncsses: to secure by Letters Patent, is. JAMES WEEKES, The deodorzing-machine, of the crookedor A. D. OSTRANDER. 

